Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1888 — What “Society” Is. [ARTICLE]

What “Society” Is.

Boston Herald. Mrs. Burnett’s two handsome little boys are with her, and, as usual, are considered living reproductions of that adorable child, little Ixrrd Fauntleroy. The original of “Little Lord Fauntleroy” is Mrs. Burnett’s younger son, Vivian, who has experienced in his small life many of the incidents related in “Little Lord Fauntleroy.” Cedric’s acquaintance with the apple-woman,for instance, is taken from real life, so to speak. An incident that did not appear hr tire’ Story was recently told me by an intimate friend of Mrs. Burnett. One day Vivian Burnett asked an old apple-woman, whom he religiously patronized in Washington, if she were “in society.” “My miuuma ik in society; are you?” “Bless you, no child, I reckon I ain’t in what you call society. Wbat is it?” “Society,” said Vivian, “why it’s a thing where there's lots of people who atFcnnw-to vcmr-hogse, and—tlicy cuine up to your mamma, who is in the draw-ing-room looking very beautiful, in a lorely jlress T aiid they shake hands with her and say,‘Why, how do you do?’ and then they gabble" gabble, gabble, gabble, gabble, and then they come up again to your mamma and say, ‘Oh, I’m so sorry, but I must go now, good-bye,’ and then they go away and that’s all.”